Let's give space a touch of Chinese horror!

Chapter 80 The Nightmare Is Hard to Wake From

"Get out of here!"

"Don't come near me!"

"roll!"

"ah--"

Xu Zhang suddenly sat up.

His chest heaved violently, like a drowning person finally surfacing and desperately trying to breathe.

"Oh my god, Mr. Xu, are you alright?!"

Hearing a concerned voice, Xu Zhang's wildly pounding heart slowly calmed down; he focused his gaze and found himself in front of the game's selection screen.

Xu Zhang: "!!!"

He quit the game?!

So he didn't die?! He didn't die in that horrible game?!

"Mr. Xu?"

The voice beside him was very cautious, as if startled by his reaction: "Are you... alright?"

Xu Zhang then realized what was happening and reached out to take off his gaming helmet.

Suddenly, his vision brightened, and Xu Zhang squinted to adjust to the light for a while before looking around.

He was still in the company's conference room.

Around him, besides the administrative staff who were concerned about his condition, were the other nine people who had come to the game with him; and judging from their condition, they seemed to have quit the game earlier than him.

That's right, back then in the game, he was indeed the last one left.

So... he really left that terrifying game?!

Xu Zhang's tense expression relaxed a little; he really didn't want to recall what he had experienced in that game anymore—

After he fainted from fright, the game returned to "normal" afterwards.

However, this "normal"... only means that he no longer sees the shadow of the woman in red who appeared on TV in anyone else, nor does he hear her voice in them.

However, this does not mean the danger has disappeared—

Xu Zhang discovered that none of them could exit the game.

The "Exit Game" button seemed to stop working for everyone at that moment.

Xu Zhang broke out in a cold sweat instantly.

This is exactly the same as the scene in my dream!

Does this mean... all the terrifying scenes from his previous nightmares will come true?!

Then, the nightmare really came true—

The first to die was Xiao Dou.

At first, Xiao Dou didn't show anything unusual—although for some reason, Jin Ye Bu Jiaban, who shared a room with him, kept his distance from Xiao Dou after they gathered—but after discovering that he couldn't quit the game, Xiao Dou panicked just like the others.

However, everything changed after Aunt Wang knocked on the door with food in her hands.

Before the NPCs even reached the door, Xiao Dou inexplicably started sniffing and saying how fragrant it was.

He was supposed to go straight to the door, but he was stopped by the others because they were still discussing not having quit the game. The "meeting" wasn't over yet, so how could he leave early?

Xiao Dou was forced to stay in the house, but his mind was completely elsewhere. His feet rubbed restlessly on the floor, his eyes were glued to the door, as if he wanted to see a hole through it; his Adam's apple bobbed up and down, and the sounds of him swallowing and smacking his lips interrupted their conversation several times.

Just as Xu Zhang was about to scold Xiao Dou, Aunt Wang arrived.

Then everyone saw Xiao Dou rush over and open the door like a madman, happily taking a big bowl of dumplings from Aunt Wang's hands—it was as if the NPC knew in advance that all of them were gathered in this room, and brought over all of their breakfasts together.

Then, the dumplings for ten people—

Xiao Dou ate them all by himself.

From the moment Xiao Dou received the food, Xu Zhang suspected that he had nothing else in his eyes. He carried the huge stainless steel basin to the table, making no attempt to invite anyone else to eat, and directly grabbed dumplings with his hands and stuffed them into his mouth.

He didn't even blow on the steaming hot dumplings before stuffing them directly into his mouth; the scalding filling made a muffled "plop" sound in his mouth, and the oily juices dripped from between his fingers. Xu Zhang could even see the shape of the dumplings protruding on his skin as they rolled in his cheeks.

Sometimes when soup drips from the corner of his mouth, he just sticks out his tongue and licks it clean; if he can't lick it clean, he just wipes it haphazardly with the back of his hand and continues to puff out his cheeks, as if the only thing left in the world is "eating".

It wasn't that others didn't try to persuade Xiao Dou to eat slower, but before they could even say "no one's going to take it from you," Xiao Dou started baring her teeth at them like a dog guarding its food, and even tried to take the remaining food to a "safer" place to continue eating.

So the others could only watch in fear as Xiao Dou's belly grew bigger and bigger.

Then, on the second or third day of the game, Xiao Dou died.

He died from overeating.

—The manner of his death was exactly the same as the scene Xu Zhang had seen on television the first night:

The enormous, bulging belly could no longer bear the weight, and with a loud bang, a gash burst open in the center.

A mixture of semi-digested, sour-smelling food gushed out of the abdominal fissures, and you could even see many chunks of meat that hadn't been digested due to being swallowed too quickly, their structures still clearly discernible. After the food stopped gushing out, the internal organs, mixed with blood, slowly seeped out, mingling with the food residue and spreading a large, sour, fermented "pattern" on the dusty ground.

Even as Xiao Dou died, his bulging eyes remained fixed on the unfinished food on the table.

Having seen similar scenes on television beforehand, Xu Zhang's reaction wasn't as strong; however, the others were quite different—

They were almost driven mad by the sight of Xiao Dou's death.

They were just like Xu Zhang that night, pulling out the game panel and clicking the "Exit Game" button repeatedly, but in despair, they never received a response.

But what I didn't expect was that even more despair was yet to come—

Because of Xiao Dou's experience, the others didn't dare or want to touch the food in the game. Fortunately, when the NPCs brought food before, Xiao Dou ate it all by himself.

However, after Xiao Dou's death, dealing with the food became particularly tricky. They had considered refusing the food offered by the NPCs, but if they refused directly without a reason, the NPCs would immediately become sullen and question them with dark faces whether they looked down on the food they offered.

At this point, Xu Zhang and his men dared not say "no," so they could only think of various excuses to refuse, even though they had stomach aches.

However, simply refusing is not a long-term solution.

After refusing the NPCs with an excuse, Xu Zhang and his group discovered that all the NPCs in the tenement building suddenly became exceptionally "warm and hospitable".